{"id":217490,"date":"2026-06-12T14:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217490\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:57:09","slug":"14-year-old-emmaus-girl-dies-days-after-drowning-in-backyard-pool-in-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217490\/","title":{"rendered":"14-Year-Old Emmaus Girl Dies Days After Drowning In Backyard Pool In Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 14-year-old from Emmaus was pronounced dead at St. Luke&#8217;s University Hospital-Bethlehem at 3:33 a.m. on Friday, June 12, according to Lehigh County Coroner Daniel A. Buglio.<\/p>\n<p>Her death was caused by complications of drowning, and the manner of death was ruled accidental, the coroner said.<\/p>\n<p>The drowning happened at a private residential swimming pool at a home in Allentown around 5:35 p.m. on Saturday, June 6, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p>The girl&#8217;s identity has not been released because she is a juvenile, the coroner explained.<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Police Department, Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, and Lehigh County Coroner&#8217;s Office are investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Details about the teen&#8217;s life were not immediately available. Her loved ones are invited to share information with Daily Voice by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyvoice.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"fd978d9496928f9cbd999c9491848b92949e98d39e9290\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Macungie-Alburtis-Emmaus<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 14-year-old from Emmaus was pronounced dead at St. Luke&#8217;s University Hospital-Bethlehem at 3:33 a.m. on Friday, June&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-217490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}